Danielle is program coordinator of the longitudinal birth cohort- the Queensland Family Cohort Study at the Mater Research Institute. She holds an Honorary Fellow appointment at the University of Queensland with the Faculty of Medicine. She completed her PhD in 2012 at the Centre for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden, Germany. Danielle has served in the Women’s Health Research, Translation and Impact Network Community and Consumer Committee since 2021.

Cannas is the Director of Academic Programs (PG) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University.

Cannas has strong passion in immigrant women’s health with specific focus on cancer screenings and survivorship. Over the last 20 years, Cannas has established a substantial network in the breast health and cancer screening promotion field.

Jessica is a Research Fellow at SPHERE, the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care. She is also a Senior Research Officer and Registered Nurse at Family Planning NSW, and holds honorary appointments with the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle and the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Australia.

Karine is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow with the School of Public Health at The University of Sydney. She completed her PhD in 2020 at the Centre for Kidney Research and currently works with the Prevention Research Collaboration.

Karine is a mixed methods researcher and is involved in several projects examining loneliness, social isolation and relationships in high risk groups including people with chronic disease and older people.

Dr Sarah Wayland is Senior Lecturer Social Work in the School of Health at the University of New England, New South Wales.

For more than 20 years, Dr Wayland’s frontline work and research has focused on trauma and loss, with a particular emphasis on understanding the needs of missing people, their families as well as suicide bereavement and prevention

Danielle is an occupational therapist, health economist and health researcher. She is also a mother of three, and her personally meaningful occupations include Aussie Rules football, crochet/knitting and gardening. In July 2018, she was appointed the inaugural Allied Health Research and Translation Lead by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, based at Western Health (0.8 FTE). Danielle also has an ongoing position as Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Deakin University (0.2FTE; March 2009-present).

Ravani Duggan is an Associate Professor, with a teaching and research focus, in the School of Nursing at Curtin University in Western Australia. She has been a nursing and midwifery educator and academic for 27 years, working across South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Singapore. She has a research joint appointment in the Centre for Nursing Research at the Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group.

Lorna is a Poche Research Fellow, at Poche SA + NT, Flinders University. She is based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), on the Traditional lands of the Arrernte people. Lorna identifies as a Torres Strait Islander.

Lorna’s research interest is Aboriginal driven research with a focus on primary health care, social determinants of health and wellbeing, community driven research, collaborative research and knowledge translation.